Call number

Alternate identifiers

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian (f. 1r-26r) and Latin (f. 27r-104v)

Origin

Written in Italy (Zacour-Hirsch) after 1746.

Place

Italy, after 1746

Summary

Collection of 18th-century Latin and Italian verse. 2 long works concern the War of Polish Succession (f. 1r-19v, 26r) and the War of Austrian Succession (f. 30r-104v), with a short poem possibly on the 1740 funeral of Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia (f. 20r-24r) and an epistle in verse to an aristocratic patron, Donato de Silva, written on a larger bifolium, tipped in and folded (f. 27r-28v).

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title for manuscript from title page of first work (f. 1r).

Extent

104 leaves : 185 x 140 mm. bound to 193 x 149 mm

Foliation

Paper, 104; [1-104], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

contemporary calf (Zacour-Hirsch), gilt spine with worm damage.

Layout

Works written in various verse formats; predominant work frame-ruled in lead (f. 30r-104v).